Think Wolfenstein or the PS3 Uncharted games. As I could find no other information about the issue online, I assumed this was due to Proton (I tried both 5.0.9 and 5. This happened for about 5-10 cutscenes and was 100 reproducible. Saying that, Uncharted 4 made the jump quite well and only used a small amount of pre-rendered cutscenes when you were going from one locale to the next.Īlso, I imagine OP is talking about cutscenes that use in-game assets but pre-rendered, not fancy CGI cutscenes. Occasionally, id5tweaker (which I used to unlock FPS) would cause input after cutscenes to deterministically lock up. I would prefer in-game cutscenes all the time to make things consistent but I understand a lot of the time it's to mask loading or to pull off more dramatic scenes that would be more difficult to render in real time. Might be the same for the PC version as well actually. FFXIII was good on PS3 though since I believe they were uncompressed, but on 360 they weren't and you could tell the difference between gameplay and cutscene pretty easily. Compression artifacts are awful in a lot of cases too, no matter the platform. A lot of the time on PC they'll reuse the console ones which typically means you're shifting from 60fps gameplay to 30fps cutscenes which can be jarring. Not to mention the occasional Visual Works quality CG we can get from time to time. The game size issue is something I can understand, for sure, but I still don't think it's a good enough reason to limit cutscene direction for many studios. It's not just a switch you flip, the process of creating them is difference, and I trust the teams to choose the most efficient method for them. They decided that the best way to achieve their goal with the cutscene was to use a prerecorded movie, for whatever reason. Different engines, different teams, different priorities. The game starts in the early 1960s and you play as the well. The New Order is set at a time when the Nazis were victorious and have total world domination. Does that mean Nier Automata had no reason not to use prerecorded footage? Of course not. Wolfenstein : The new order is different from what you’re used to from the previous Wolfenstein games, but the previous parts still focus on the occult of the Nazis during the second war. On the other hand, Nier Automata needed to go with prerecorded for transitions to wildly different places, even though they're not nearly as dynamic and fast paced as the ones in Evil Within 2. Like, The Evil Within 2 manages some of the most impressive cutscene transitions I've seen and all in real time, the worst thing you get is some texture loading, but you get that in simple cutscenes as well, it's just an idtech thing, I suppose.

It's nice when they can make great things without it, but it's not always a possibility.

It would severely limit their creative vision.

Wolfenstein the new order cutscenes